To be honest, I find the fact that the act was enacted in 2010 to be more offensive.

They didn't pass that law until 2010?

It's an amalgamation and the most recent revision of the acts enacted in the past, such as: the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, the Race Relations Act 1976, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995

It's not racism when you're discriminating against different subsets of culture. I wouldn't rent to white trash baby popping druggies as I would try to avoid renting to other groups of people from other races for the same reason.

But that's not what this topic is about. In this case people are being discriminated against based on the colour of their skin, as evidenced by the fact a black BBC reporter asked to view these properties and was refused while his white colleague was welcomed.

Sure, why not. It's their property, let them do what they want with it.

I found it outrageous that you think it's okay for landlords / letting agents to discriminate against all white people because of chavs. That's exactly what the Equality Act 2010 is designed to prevent.

i would suggest they are NOT being denied for being black, but rather the majority of the people that are applying and not being qualified enough just happen to be black....

You clearly didn't read the article:

All 10 were recorded on secret camera saying they would be prepared not to show the flat to African-Caribbean people - and many detailed how they had done it before.

The lettings manager at A to Z Property Services, in Dollis Hill, said: "We cannot be shown discriminating against a community. But obviously we've got our ways around that."

That is clearly against the law, as people are being discriminated against because of their race and not their character.